
Product Description
Diving Deep: Field Notes on Public Policy and the Poetics of the Self is a collection of reflective essays drawn from the author's experiences across academia, government, management consulting, and grassroots development. Written mostly during the uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic, these essays revisit years of fieldwork, weaving together literature, poetry, popular culture, and public policy to explore the many ways policy shapes, and is shaped by, language, memory, identity, culture, and everyday life. Drawing upon years of field engagement and countless conversations across India, this collection invites readers to see public policy not merely as legislation or governance, but as something woven into the fabric of everyday life, where it is both deeply personal and profoundly political.


